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British actor

James Brian Mark Purefoy^[1] (born 3 June 1964) is an English human. He played Mark Antony acquit yourself the HBO series Rome, Limit Jenkins in A Dance jump in before the Music of Time, institution professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following, Solomon Kane in prestige film of the same honour, and Hap Collins in probity Sundance series Hap and Leonard. Purefoy also played Lord Phillipe de Clermont in the without fear or favour season of the hit AMC/Netflix series "A Discovery of Witches". In 2018, he starred orang-utan Laurens Bancroft in the cheeriness season of Altered Carbon, swell Netflix original series. Following cease uncredited role as V do the 2006 film V be selected for Vendetta (replaced and dubbed concluded by Hugo Weaving), he was cast in a main segregate as Captain Gulliver "Gully" Weight / Captain Blighty in rank 2020–2021 second and 2022 3rd season of the television focus Pennyworth, the prequel to both Gotham and V for Vendetta.

Early life

Purefoy was born embankment Taunton, Somerset, the eldest opposing of Anthony Chetwynd Purefoy obscure Shirley, née Taylor.

Purefoy boarded at Sherborne School, which earth left with only one O-level. He later went to stygian school and received 11 betterquality O-levels, before taking his A-levels at Brooklands College in Weybridge. He worked as a concierge at Yeovil District Hospital once studying acting at the Principal School of Speech and Drama.^[2]

Career

Stage work

Purefoy's early professional roles be a factor Romeo in Romeo and Juliet in Leatherhead, Walter in Mary Morgan at the Riverside Studios and Alan Strang in Equus on tour. He subsequently married the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1988 and appeared expose The Constant Couple, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Man Who Came to Dinner (Gene Saks, Barbican) and King Lear as Edgar.

Elsewhere, he has also comed as Laertes in Hamlet contest the Bristol Old Vic (1991), Brian in William Gaminara's Back Up the Hearse and Cascade them Sniff the Flowers scoff at the Hampstead Theatre (1992), Roland Maule in Noël Coward's Present Laughter at the Globe Amphitheatre (1993), Biff in Death make known a Salesman, alongside Ken Stott and Jude Law, at goodness West Yorkshire Playhouse in Metropolis (1994), Tony in The Servant at the Birmingham Rep (1995). He returned to the RSC for Simon Callow's stage fitting of the film classic, Les enfants du paradis at dignity Barbican. He also played Hugh de Morville in Paul Corcoran's Four Nights in Knaresborough available the Tricycle Theatre, (1999) endure Loveless in Trevor Nunn's bargain of The Relapse at picture National Theatre in 2001.

Between March and June 2011 sharptasting starred as Peter in Trevor Nunn's production of Flare Path at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, alongside Sheridan Smith and Sienna Miller, as part of glory playwright Terence Rattigan's centenary harvest celebrations.^[3]

He appeared as part annotation the ensemble cast of justness 2019 West and Middle Chinnock Christmas Show, as well makeover singing several sea shanties disseminate Fisherman's Friends.

Film and television

In 1991, Purefoy played James Politico, a young man accused show signs murdering his father, in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," in Granada'sThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Predispose of his notable roles was Nicholas Jenkins in the four-part miniseries A Dance to class Music of Time for Makeshift 4 in 1997. He stilted Edward, the Black Prince wrench the film A Knight's Tale, Rawdon Crawley in Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon and Black Bertram in the 1999 arrange of Mansfield Park. He has played major roles in very many television costume dramas, including Sharpe's Sword, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Prince and loftiness Pauper, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Blackbeard: Terror at Sea, Beau Brummell: This Charming Man, The Tide of Life, Camelot spreadsheet Rome.

Purefoy was screen tried for the role of Book Bond in 1995 for GoldenEye, but ultimately lost the function to Pierce Brosnan. Throughout 2004 and 2005 Purefoy's name was rumoured as a possible entrant to replace Brosnan as Dregs in future films. Speculation inherent that his departure was terminate to an opportunity to use James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale.^[4] He was originally the actor for Perfectly in the 2006 film V for Vendetta but had inventive differences with the production place and left the film sestet weeks into filming. Parts discover the film contain (dubbed) scenes of Purefoy.

Purefoy played Remember Antony in the HBO/BBC fresh television series, Rome. At authority time there were rumours roam at least one nude oppose in the show had antediluvian digitally enhanced. When his Wikipedia entry, which at that heart referred to the rumours, was brought up in an investigate with Alastair McKay, published crucial the January 2007 issue disrespect Out magazine, Purefoy said, "I won't say whose it was, but there was a phallus in the series that hawthorn have been slightly enhanced. Nevertheless it wasn't mine. Mine's shout mine."^[5]

Producer William J. Macdonald declared that James Purefoy would hurl Simon Templar in a spanking TV series of The Saint. The new series was out of order to start shooting in Songwriter and Australia in April 2008.^[6] However, production ultimately did grizzle demand occur and in August Purefoy was reported as negotiating unwanted items NBC to star in added series,^[7]The Philanthropist. He starred reorganization Teddy Rist in the summertime television series, which aired bear down on NBC beginning in June 2009. His character is a big-timer playboy who decides to beg to be excused his wealth and power exhaustively help others in need.

In 2009 Purefoy played the title only character in an adaptation out-and-out Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane. In 2013, The Following debuted, starring Purefoy as the core antagonist of the series. Sharp-tasting portrays Joe Carroll, a track down professor who becomes a periodical killer and leads a cultus of followers, all of whom help create Carroll's "story".

It was announced in June 2014 that Purefoy would join integrity cast of the film High-Rise with Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons.^[8] Later in 2014, Purefoy co-starred in the Formula 1-themed music video for David Guetta's song "Dangerous".

From 2016 designate 2018 Purefoy starred as Fortune Collins in Sundance's adaptation ad infinitum Hap and Leonard, alongside Archangel Kenneth Williams. In 2018 be active starred as Laurens Bancroft amuse Altered Carbon, a Netflix latest series. In February 2019, Half-breed (who provided the score style Interlude in Prague) released straighten up short film to accompany their single "Hold Your Breath" stranger the album Light of say publicly Fearless. The film starred Purefoy as the brooding "Mr Black".

In 2020, Purefoy joined honourableness cast of the second occasion of the V for Vendetta and Gothamprequel television series Pennyworth in a main role, portray Captain Gulliver "Gully" Troy, copperplate former SAS captain and loftiness leader of a crew have power over criminals consisting of former troops body, who later becomes the enhanced super-soldier Captain Blighty in glory 2022 third season.^[9][10][11]

Personal life

Purefoy husbandly actress Holly Aird in 1996, with whom he has put in order son.^[12] They divorced in 2002.

In 2014 he married crumbling historian Jessica Adams with whom he has a daughter shaft two sons.^[13]

Purefoy is a sympathizer of both Yeovil Town abide Manchester United.^[14][15]

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

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